The effects of wall color and room size on the classroom social behavior of nursery school children

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Patricia Joyce Horton (Creator)
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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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J. Allen Watson

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to replicate in part and to extend Webb's (1971) findings regarding color as a discriminative stimulus (SD) for social behavior. The research problem was to assess whether wall color and room size act as SD's for the social behavior of nursery school children within a structured group task. The Null Hypothesis was predicted for the main effects of color, and room size and for their interaction on the dependent variables Disruptive Behavior, Relevant Behavior, and Noise Level. Twenty-four 3-4- and 5 year old children attending the morning session, spring semester 1973, of the Nursery School of the School of Home Economics served as subjects for the experiment. An experimental room was created in which simultaneous varying of wall color and room size was possible. Pre-experimental instruments were the Dvorine Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates to test for color blindness and a color preference test based on the experimental colors. Experimental instruments were the Becker, Madsen, Arnold, and Thomas (1967) scale and a sound-level meter.

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Language: English
Date: 1973

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